Read the nice feature about Scottish Coastal Rowing’s Skiffie Worlds event by Kathy Mansfield recently published by Watercraft magazine here.
Category: Modern boatbuilding
Modern and plywood boatbuilding and plans
Todd Kerr builds a Cinderella
This smart little canoe built to my Cinderella plans built by Tod Kerr will be launched on the Chesapeake in a few weeks. It’s great to see that he has followed the building instructions to a ‘T’ and has come up with an excellent result.
The plans he used are included in my book Ultrasimple Boat Building, which was published by International Marine some years ago and which is still available from Amazon and elsewhere. (The book plans are a little more worked out than the earlier Cinderella plans available from this site and, as it’s a book, come with much more detail about the boat building method.)
Despite ‘looking right’ the Cinderella is very quick and cheaply made water-borne vehicle, and all reports show that she paddles very nicely. Thanks for letting me know about your project Tod! Read all about Tod’s Cinderella -and find out how she took just $30 in materials here.
Percy Blandford, DIY polymath and small boat designer, crosses the bar
Percy Blandford
I have heard that Percy Blandford, the century-old legendary designer of boats and canoes for home building and prolific author on huge range of workshop-related topics passed away today.
Good ol’ Mr Blandford. Among many other things he helped to get the post-War leisure boating and DIY boat building boom going, and got lots of people afloat for the first time. He will be much missed, but deserves a rousing cheer to send him off. I’m raising my glass, as you’d expect.
Our post about him written to celebrate his 100th birthday probably tells the story as well as I can – read it here.